Introduction Dan Morgenstern (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Black cloth spine /gold boards. Dust Jacket Condition: DJ Not Price Clipped (30.00). First Printing of the First Edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. Fine condition in Very Good Dust Jacket. No owner's name or bookplate. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Clean, square, tight, and unmarked. Illustrated with musical notation and a few photographs. Index. First printing, with complete number row (987654321) on the copyright page. Essays and reviews by one of America's first great jazz critics on Duke Ellington, Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, Bubber Miley, Serge Lifar, etc. From the Dust Jacket: "HOT JAZZ AND JAZZ DANCE gathers nearly thirty years of Dodge's writing, from 1929 to 1958, offering a remarkable chronicle of the changing music and one writer's ever-growing appreciation of it. Dodge ranges across the musical spectrum, from the Cuban sexteto to the blues of Leadbelly. This collection also contains many of his articles on everything from mambo to Nijinsky. In addition, this volume offers Dodge's significant writing on classical music, including a piece on Baroque playing styles." . First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Black cloth spine /gold boards/DJ Not Price Clipped (30.00). 8vo. xiv, 368pp.

First edition Near fine tall glossy stiff wraps with excellent square spine and crisp bright text throughout. Profusely illustrated with musicians and locations. Nicely annotated by the author. Gift quality.

First edition (not stated). 300 pages. Hardcover: H 28.75cm x L 24.5cm. Dust jacket lightly rubbed with slight bumping at edges; 5cm closed tear at front panel's top left; slight soiling to white rear panel. White cloth; foxing at tops of boards and spine; spine's gilt and black stamped lettering remains bright. Foxing to text block's top edge with some leaves fractionally affected at their top margins; interior leaves are otherwise bright and clean. Binding retains some crispness. Please note that this large book has an approximate shipping weight of 4.75 pounds (2.15 kg) and may require additional postage for any postal class other than domestic Media Mail. ISBN 0810911523.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Ole Brask (photos) (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition. A very good copy with dust staining to the top edge and top edge of binding in a near fine mylar protected DJ. See my photos of the book you will receive, not stock photos. More available upon request. This book is in my possession and will be packed in bubble wrap and shipped in a cardboard box. USPS tracking provided. #RCR3.